Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upon new King George called last week "The Next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom," as many call hawk-nosed, hawk-minded Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain. Meanwhile a bona fide offer of $1,000,000 to go to Hollywood had been cabled to the Duke of Windsor & Mrs. Simpson (see p. 31) and, however remote acceptance was from their minds, it behooved the United Kingdom not to be niggardly with the Duke. At 5%, the interest on $1,000,000 is $50,000 per year and the Chancellor of the Exchequer was presently reported to have agreed with...
Because they usually have to work & play too hard and go to bed too early, the 12 million small fry who compose a substantial element of the U. S. cinema audience cannot get to the theatre as much as either they or Hollywood producers would like. Vacations are exceptions. On the theory that children like pictures about children, several such appear at Christmas, at Easter and in June. Released on schedule last week were two major productions involving the top single-digit stars of both sexes, RKO's Bobby Breen, 9, and Twentieth Century-Fox's Shirley Temple...
Until some producer rounds up Hollywood's alarmingly large child actor population for an all-star effort, possibly on the lines of Grand Hotel in a day nursery, there is no chance for new discoveries in the well-explored terrain of plots for such performers. Central figures of both RKO's Rainbow on the River and Twentieth Century-Fox's Stowaway are, as usual, waifs doing as much good for themselves as possible and struggling hard to keep out of the orphanage...
Current problem of the cinema industry in England is whether the U. S. talent that it is now importing will supply it with a trace of Hollywood dash. Second production of enterprising Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s London studio, with an American author (Zoe Akins), director (Thornton Freeland) and two Hollywood principals, Accused suggests that, on the contrary, England may infect Hollywood emigres with that dignified lethargy that has been the drawback of so many British pictures in the past. Well-acted by conscientious members of the vast theatre population which is one of London's chief attractions...
Robert Gessner was working in Hollywood, preparing the script of his Indian story, Massacre, when Hitler came into power in Germany. A broad-shouldered, heavy youth, author of a book of poems and holder of a pilot's license, Robert Gessner, born in Escanaba, Mich, in 1907, had not thought much about being a Jew before that time. There had been a few painful instances of hostility in his boyhood, more when he got to college, but before Hitler "race hatred and the Jews were interesting subjects, but not pressing." Now he found that even in Hollywood Jewish actors...